{"id":1978463,"date":"2023-07-20T12:56:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T16:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-unsuccessfully-reaches-out-to-north-korea-through-multiple-channels-over-soldier\/"},"modified":"2023-07-20T12:57:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T16:57:12","slug":"us-unsuccessfully-reaches-out-to-north-korea-through-multiple-channels-over-soldier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-unsuccessfully-reaches-out-to-north-korea-through-multiple-channels-over-soldier\/","title":{"rendered":"US attempts to contact North Korea regarding soldier prove fruitless."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fus-unsuccessfully-reaches-out-to-north-korea-through-multiple-channels-over-soldier%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1978463&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The United States Reaches Out to North Korean Military Regarding American Service Member<\/h2>\n<p>The United States has made efforts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukraine-lawmaker-says-moscow-has-deported-500000-people-to-russia\/\" title=\"Ukraine Lawmaker Says Moscow Has Deported 500,000 People to Russia\">establish contact<\/a> with the North Korean military through\u200c various channels regarding the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-unsuccessfully-reaches-out-to-north-korea-through-multiple-channels-over-soldier\/\" title=\"US attempts to contact North Korea regarding soldier prove fruitless.\">recent\u200c incident involving<\/a> an American service member. Pvt. Travis King, a cavalry scout with the Army, had completed his prison\u200b sentence and was scheduled to return home to the U.S. However, he \u200cmade the decision to cross into North Korea instead.<\/p>\n<h3>Collaboration and Communication<\/h3>\n<p>The White House, in collaboration with the Department of Defense, the Department of State, the United Nations, and partners from Sweden and South\u2062 Korea, is actively working to determine Pvt. \u2063King&#8217;s whereabouts and ensure his well-being. White House deputy press secretary Olivia Dalton\u2063 stated that multiple channels have been utilized to reach out to the Korean People&#8217;s Army in order to gather information and find a resolution.<\/p>\n<h3>Seeking Answers<\/h3>\n<p>Several \u2064U.S. agencies \u2062are dedicated to gathering details about Pvt. King&#8217;s situation, but at \u2062this \u2064point, there are more questions than answers. It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-passes-bipartisan-infrastructure-bill-69-30\/\" title=\"Senate passes bipartisan infrastructure bill 69-30\">remains uncertain<\/a> whether the U.S. will be able to secure Pvt. King&#8217;s release and if \u200che even desires to return to the U.S., considering he voluntarily crossed into North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>According to South Korean media, Pvt. King was accused of assaulting \u200cpolice officers by kicking a \u200bpatrol car\u2064 door and using offensive language.<\/p>\n<h3>Concern for Well-being<\/h3>\n<p>State Department\u200b spokesman Matthew Miller\u200b revealed\u200d that the Department of Defense&#8217;s attempts to establish contact\u200b with North Korea have \u2063not yet received a response. Defense Secretary\u200c Lloyd Austin expressed his concern for Pvt. King&#8217;s well-being and emphasized that his crossing into North Korea \u200dwas unauthorized and voluntary.<\/p>\n<p>As the situation unfolds, the United States remains\u200b committed to resolving the matter and ensuring the safety of Pvt. King.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click here \u200bto read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US has contacted the North Korean military through various channels regarding Pvt. Travis King, an American service member who recently crossed into North Korea from South Korea. Pvt. King, an Army cavalry scout since January 2021, was scheduled to return to the US after completing a two-year deployment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1978464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1978463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1978463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1978464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1978463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1978463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1978463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}